[sparkscoffee] Re: Netanyahu Pulls Down The Mas kBelligerence An d Rac ism Underneath
- From: "schalestock@xxxxxxxx" <schalestock@xxxxxxxx>
- To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:30:03 GMT
RR Your logic is a little confusing. I agree we are looking at a replay of the
1930s. And I'm sure you have read Mein Kampf in which Hitler not only laid out
his plans but eventually implemented them. That being the case, how can you
reconcile your statement that Iran has a "right" to own a nuclear weapon on
one hand and their stated intention to nuke Isreal once they get it? Don't you
believe them? I sure as hell do. JS
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: FreeARA <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Netanyahu Pulls Down The Mas
k——Belligerence And Rac ism Underneath
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:15:13 -0400 (EDT)
Netanyahu has been claiming that Iran has been building a nuclear weapon that
will ready within 6 months for the past 25 years! And some people still take
him seriously!
Even if Iran were building a nuclear bomb it is not a crime. They are a member
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and permitted to do so under
International Law. Israel on the other hand is not a member of the treaty and
they have the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Simply
owning a nuclear weapon is no different than buying a gun for protection
against criminals who carry guns.
The danger is that Iran is an ally of both Russia and China.
Everything that is taking place today is like a rerun of the 1930's. It's
fascinating to observe the height of human stupidity firsthand. - At least when
you're not sitting in the kill zone.
-RR
-----Original Message-----
From: "schalestock@xxxxxxxx" <schalestock@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mar 20, 2015 8:19 AM
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Netanyahu Pulls Down The Mas
k——Belligerence And Rac ism Underneath
RR You may be right about WW3. If the Isrealis go terminal on the Iranian nuke
structures, you know there won't be any half way measures. The calculus then
changes to just how strong Iran feels about it - up to and including another
war. The Israelis have been fortunate in the past but, as you probably know,
Goda Meir was asked for nuclear release during the Yom Kipper War when it
looked like Isreal was going to be overrun. I don't doubt for a minute that
the Isrealis won't go nuclear if they feel their survial is threatened, or if
Iran tries to nuke them. Which, of course will be the beginning of Armageddon.
JS
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: [sparkscoffee] Re: Netanyahu Pulls Down The
Mask——Belligerence And Rac ism Underneath
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:02:33 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
JS,
The significance is that he has now made racism and unprovoked attacks against
other countries the official state policy of Israel, not much different than
Hitler prior to the start of WWII. Hitler condoned all of his actions too, and
the majority of the German people supported him, as did the League of Nations
even after he invaded Poland to protect Germany from the Russians who had
massed troupes on the border.
This scenario has played out over and over again throughout history and it
always ends the same way.
Netanyahu will no doubt go down as the evil person who started WWIII just as
Hitler has been blamed by many as the evil person who started WWII.
-RR
-----Original Message-----
From: "schalestock@xxxxxxxx" <schalestock@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mar 20, 2015 4:39 AM
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Netanyahu Pulls Down The
Mask——Belligerence And Rac ism Underneath
RR I don't see any mention of the billions and billons of dollars donated to
the Palestinian people and stolen by Arafat and his sucessors. IE A
significant part of the problem rests wih the Palestinians themselves, if you
want to be fair and balanced about it. JS
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From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [sparkscoffee] Netanyahu Pulls Down The Mask——Belligerence
And Racism Underneath
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:53:54 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
By Robert Parry at Consortium News
Desperate to win reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stripped
off Israel’s mask and exposed the ugliness that has deformed his country
over the past several decades. He abandoned the subterfuge of a two-state
solution, exposed the crass racism that underlies Israeli politics, and
revealed Israel’s blatant control of the U.S. Congress.
For years, these realities were known to many Americans, but – if they
spoke up – they were condemned as anti-Semites, so most stayed silent to
protect their careers and reputations. But – given Netanyahu’s
brazen admissions – the American people may have little choice but to
finally take notice of this troubling reality and demand a change in U.S.
policy.
The truth is that the two-state solution has been a fiction for at least the
past two decades, dying in 1995 with the assassination of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin. But the two-state illusion still served important political
purposes both for Israelis, who would pay it lip service while continuing their
steady encroachment on Palestinian lands, and for U.S. politicians who could
point to the mirage as an excuse not to pressure Israel too hard on its human
rights violations.
Yet, whenever any U.S. official actually tried to reach that shimmering oasis
of a two-state solution, it would recede into the distance. Then, the Israelis
would rely on their friends and allies in the news media and politics to blame
the Palestinians. Now, however, the illusion of Israel seeking such an outcome
in good faith has been lost in Netanyahu’s anything-goes determination to
keep his office – a case of political expediency trumping strategic
expediency.
In the closing days of the campaign, Netanyahu promised that as long as he was
prime minister he would block a Palestinian state and would continue building
Jewish settlements on what international law recognizes as Palestinian land.
To further rally his right-wing Jewish base, Netanyahu warned that “Arab
voters are streaming in huge quantities to the polling stations” –
an alarm similar to racist politicians in the United States motivating the
white vote with claims about loads of blacks being bused to the polls. With his
crude appeal, Netanyahu undermined the longstanding denial that Zionism is a
form of racism.
Even before Netanyahu’s last-minute histrionics, he had exploited his
relationship with the United States to burnish his reputation as a world leader
by appearing for a record-tying third time as a foreign leader addressing a
joint session of the U.S. Congress. (Only Great Britain’s Winston
Churchill had appeared three times before Congress.)
Acting as almost a stand-in for the President of the United States, Netanyahu
gave what amounted to a faux State of the Union address filled with scary tales
about Iran and with dire warnings against international negotiations seeking to
ensure that Iran’s nuclear program remains peaceful.
Though some Democrats boycotted the speech because it represented an
unprecedented insult to an American president, the Republican majority and many
Democrats gave Netanyahu more than 40 ovations as they cheered his vitriolic
attacks on Iran and his denunciations of the negotiations supported by
President Barack Obama. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Congress Cheers
Netanyahu’s Hatred of Iran.”]
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
Then, last weekend, a prominent neoconservative Joshua Muravchik admitted that
the almost certain outcome of Netanyahu’s scuttling of the negotiations
would be to bomb Iran. Muravchik laid out this scenario in a Washington Post
article headlined “War is the only way to stop Iran” in print
editions and “War with Iran is probably our best option” online.
“What if force is the only way to block Iran from gaining nuclear
weapons? That, in fact, is probably the reality,” Muravchik wrote.
“Sanctions may have induced Iran to enter negotiations, but they have not
persuaded it to abandon its quest for nuclear weapons. Nor would the stiffer
sanctions that Netanyahu advocates bring a different result. …
“Does this mean that our only option is war? Yes, although an air
campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure would entail less need
for boots on the ground than the war Obama is waging against the Islamic State,
which poses far smaller a threat than Iran does. … Wouldn’t
destroying much of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure merely delay its
progress? Perhaps, but we can strike as often as necessary.”
In other words, if Netanyahu keeps pulling the strings of the U.S. government,
an open-ended war on Iran is the almost certain result. But Netanyahu, for
short-term political gain, risked Israel’s longstanding support from the
American people by spotlighting his role as the marionette of the U.S.
Congress. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “A Neocon Admits the Plan to
Bomb Iran.“]
Netanyahu’s reelection victory has clarified the situation for the
American people in another way. We now know there will be no two-state solution
with the Palestinians as Israel cements its status as an apartheid state
– and all the cries of “anti-Semitism” are not likely to
silence people taking notice of this reality since the Israeli Prime Minister
himself has taken the sting out of the slur.
The American people now have little choice but to recognize that Israel intends
to maintain and expand its “Jewish state” pushing the Palestinians
into isolated enclaves. For nearly a half century, Israel has exercised
effective control over these indigenous people in the West Bank and Gaza
(totaling more than 4 million people), but there was always the hope of a
Palestinian state.
Now, by jettisoning the prospect of a “two-state solution,”
Netanyahu will institutionalize what had long been the unacknowledged fate of
the Palestinians. In essence, Netanyahu is opting for a one-state solution,
just with most Palestinians confined to a state-less netherworld where they
will be denied political rights, left to wither and die.
And, whenever some Palestinians act up, Israel will wage war against them,
killing thousands at a time and destroying their homes and infrastructure, what
Israelis call “mowing the grass.”
With the facades gone, Americans must decide if they will embrace this
apartheid system or not. Many Christian Zionists, who are a powerful force
inside the Republican Party, are okay with Israel’s brutal repression
because they see the Jews taking this land as a step toward fulfilling a
biblical prophecy so Jesus can return to earth as its king.
But rational Americans are confronted with a difficult moral choice. Either
continue supporting Netanyahu in brutalizing the Palestinians and in his
looming war against Iran (using the U.S. military to carry it out) or insist
that the U.S. government reassess its relationship with Israel.
The developments of March 2015 – from Netanyahu’s proconsul-style
speech before the U.S. Congress to the racist incitements of his victorious
campaign – have forced thoughtful Americans to abandon their longstanding
excuses for Israeli behavior.
From now on, there’s no pretending that “standing with
Israel” doesn’t mean kneeling in an obsequious acceptance of
Netanyahu’s cruelty toward the Palestinians and cooperation in an illegal
and aggressive war against Iran.
-RR
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